OpenAI issues its first formal rebuttal to Apple's trade-secret suit

OpenAI issued its first substantive pushback on Apple's lawsuit, saying "we're not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit" and defending "the freedom to work wherever they choose." The statement is OpenAI's most direct on-the-record response yet to the case, which accuses the company of a coordinated campaign to poach Apple engineers and extract confidential hardware information. Apple has called the allegations "the tip of the iceberg," promising more in discovery. The rebuttal threatens to escalate OpenAI's hardware ambitions just as its screenless-speaker plans surface.

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